In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to make conversation or to tell a story. Here, the speaker tells one version of the nabaane stories which are known in great variety and many versions. The speaker is 500.

In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to pronounce some Beaver verbs in order to get comparable data for further dialect analyses.
Here: stop running! you stop running; also to quit smoking

In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to make conversation or to tell a story. Here, the speaker tells one version of the nabaane stories which are known in great variety and many versions. The speaker is 500.

In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to pronounce some Beaver verbs in order to get comparable data for further dialect analyses.
Here: I got lost, he got lost, I went up the hill, I came up

In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to make conversation or to tell a story. Here, the speaker tells one version of the naabane stories which are known in great variety and many versions.

In this part of the workshop, the participants are asked to pronounce some Beaver words in order to get comparable data for further dialect analyses.
Here: berries, berry plant, low bush cranberry, huckleberries, saskatoons, blackberries, choke cherries, blueberry, low bush blueberry, strawberry, rasberry; also some verbal forms: I am picking berries, I am eating rasberries

The researchers give a short overview of the VW Foundation and the DoBeS archive. The idea behind this documentation project, its dimension as well as some single aspects interesting for the participants of the workshop are explained and discussed here. Furthermore, a discussion about language loss and loss of linguistic diversity in the world in general is followed by a talk about influences of dominant languages, and speaker attitudes towards one's own (indigenous) language and the dominant language.

In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to make conversation or to tell a story. Here, speaker 527 tells the story of a man who was so sad that he had lost his family, that he wanted to kill himself by falling asleep at the mooslick. His intent was to be trampled by the animals.
The story was recorded at the 2008 workshop, but the speaker wanted to add an new introduction. This was captured at a later time as an audio track only. The archived media combines the new intro along with the workshop video in one movie file. The audio is supplemented by a slide show of photos (landscapes and of speaker 527).

In this part of the Workshop, the participants pronounce Beaver words in order to get comparable data for further dialect research.
Here, the following words and their realizations are discussed: ground/earth, wall, it is raining / it is raining a little bit, it is big, I kill it, you killed it, kill it!

In this part of the Workshop, the participants pronounce Beaver words in order to get comparable data for further dialect research.
Here, words beginning with the plosives (t), (d), and glottalized (t') are elicited ('leave, father, arrow')